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>     <SPAN
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>, as an heir to
     <SPAN
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>Junkbuster</SPAN
>, is a Free Software project 
     and the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
     As such, <SPAN
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> development is potentially open
     to anyone who has the time, knowledge, and desire to contribute
     in any capacity. Our goals are simply to continue the mission,
     to improve <SPAN
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     to make it available to as wide an audience as possible. 
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>     One does not have to be a programmer to contribute. Packaging, testing,
     documenting and porting, are all important jobs as well.
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>    The first step is to join the <A
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    You can submit your ideas, or even better patches. Patches are best 
    submitted to the Sourceforge tracker set up for this purpose, but 
    can be sent to the list for review too.
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>     You will also need to have a cvs package installed, which will 
     entail having ssh installed as well (which seems to be a requirement of
     SourceForge), in order to access the cvs repository. Having the GNU build
     tools is also going to be important (particularly, autoconf and gmake).
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>      For the time being (read, this section is under construction), you can 
      also refer to the extensive comments in the source code. In fact, 
      reading the code is recommended in any case.
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